Chapter 53 No Choice

The return journey is very smooth. There is no need to hide his figure or follow the enemy's footsteps. Li ran between the jungle at the fastest speed. In just one day, Li returned to the brownstone fortress.

"You're not dead," Elizabeth said impatiently as soon as she entered the conference room of the fortress, "It's really good. Since you're not dead, tell me what's going on outside. What's going on with the strange psionic explosion that affects our communication?"

Li quickly and clearly told the story.

"There are spirits who have fallen here, and they have also set up altars to open the space cracks!" Elizabeth frowned, "Tid you tell me more about the appearance of the space crack."

Li is too lazy to say that he directly took a few photos taken by himself and put the photos on the screen through the projection device.

Elizabeth looked at it carefully for a while before she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay, it's not a big problem."

Li frowned slightly and asked, "What's going on?" The devil will come to this world through this crack soon. Why do you look indifferent instead?

"Because this is not a big deal in the first place, it is not the first time that we have faced an attack in a different space. Every year, demons go around the universe in various ways. Sometimes because of the climate of the universe, there are natural cracks in the space, and sometimes it is the cult rituals made by those fallen evil gods. Those pagan residues use summoning rituals, possessive rituals, or something like this. Directly open a space channel and let the evil come to this world. But the evil can't stay in this world forever. Once the passage is closed and the space cracks are closed, it will stay for a long time. Sooner or later, it will go back, leaving only a dead world infected by chaos. It's like broken food with a peculiar smell in the refrigerator. Open the refrigerator, the stench appears, close the refrigerator, and the stench is cut off, but the stench is still floating in the air. Elizabeth pointed to the space crack in the picture and said, "This is a temporary crack, which is not stable. Although I have not explored it carefully, I can also guess the general situation. The space in this world is relatively stable, and it is not easy to open a door here. So even if you use an evil ritual, you can't let it last too long, at most for about a week. Space itself has a powerful power. It is not easy to drill a hole in space that leads to a different space anywhere and maintain stability. I can guarantee that even if we don't do anything, it will be difficult to last for a week after the crack is formed.

"So what do you think of the words of the spirit clan?"

"Obviously, the spirit wants to take advantage of us. Maybe what the spirit clan talking to you said is true, but it can't be all true. And now all this has nothing to do with us. There are troubles within the spiritual clan. They want to eliminate their troubles, but they can't do this on their own, so they are whimsical to use our hands to help them achieve their goals.

Li nodded and agreed with this statement. He asked, "Do you have any suggestions?"

"We are always very passive in the attack of demons in different spaces, because you never know what they are going to do, so in general, we just make defensive deployments, set up fortifications on some important buildings or critical areas, and make defensive postures, but there is nothing worth us here. Defensive. So I suggest that we evacuate immediately and watch the spirit clan fight to death from afar. There is no need to participate in it. After a week, at most two weeks, everything will be over, and then we will clean up the mess again. After thinking about it, Li Lisabai added, "Don't forget our original purpose. Catch two spiritual people by the way before we leave. This is just a border planet, not even an imperial resident. They don't understand what those demons in different space are thinking at all. They have worked hard to cross the plane. What is the purpose of coming here? I don't understand. The only thing worth mentioning here is the outpost under our feet. This building is too old, so it has some historical value. These demons don't want to do antique collections, do they? Forget it, let the devil come here and toss around casually. It's okay for them to move all the sentries away, even if it's given to them.

Li likes this idea very much, "Good idea. The 101st Regiment can withdraw with us and let the 'Little Eagle' run a few more times. If there are 500 people, it is nothing for the Silver Wing.

"I can only express my gratitude for Lord Li's kindness," the only leader and deputy head of the 101st regiment, Morborough, was also sitting in the conference room. At this moment, he was trying to squeeze out a smile that was worse than crying from his face. He said in a very sad tone, "I'm really grateful that you can think for us. But we still can't withdraw with you.

Li didn't expect to be rejected: "Why?"

"You must also see that our 101st Regiment only experienced a fierce battle not long ago, and our regiment is now crippled. Even if the above means that let our 101st Regiment come here to rest, let the soldiers take a breath, and then accept further decoration, but..." Deputy Head of the Regiment, Moreborough He rubbed his hands and sighed and said, "But after all, this kind of thing can't be sent directly in the form of an order, so the order given to us is indeed let us guard the border planet Aion of the empire. As long as the order has not changed, we must defend the brownstone fortress anyway."

"You were pressed by several rangers in the fortress before and couldn't go out. Soon, it is likely that this place will become an amusement park for chaotic demons, guarding here? What do you use to guard? Elizabeth looked at the guns hanging on the wall and said with a sneer, "Just use this ' flashlight'?"

"It's not a flashlight, but a standard weapon of the Imperial Guard, a laser rifle," Deputy commander Molborough said seriously, "Although it is not powerful, it is our standard weapon. Countless Imperial Guards use it to destroy the enemy and protect the empire."

Unexpectedly, Elizabeth did not refute. She just put away the sneer at the corners of her mouth and stopped talking.

"If things really slide in the worst direction, I know that we can't defend the brownstone fortress alone," Morborough sighed and continued, "Even when the 101st Regiment is at its most complete, it is impossible to resist those terrible ones alone. Demons. But our imperial defense force is different from you. We are all ordinary people. We rely on discipline and orders to gather ordinary people in the name of the emperor. But even so, we are soldiers. Soldiers take it as their duty to obey the order. I also want to live, but the order must be obeyed. The 101st Regiment will stick to the brownstone fortress. Even if there is only a bird egg here that is a little valuable, we will risk our lives to defend it. The devil will find that even if they want to grab a bird egg, they will not be satisfactory, even if all of them are sacrificed. I don't care. This cannot be changed unless a new order is issued. I know it's stupid, but I also know that we are guarding not only this shabby place, but also our Kadian's honor!"

"It seems that some people have a choice, while others have no choice." Elizabeth looked at Li and asked coldly, "So a person with a choice, what is your choice?"

Stay and accompany the 101st Regiment to stick to the brownstone fortress? No, this is the stupidest choice of all choices. If more Li and the team brought by him can indeed greatly enhance the firepower of the brownstone fortress, especially with heavy air support firepower, the defense of the brownstone fortress will be greatly enhanced. But it is more likely that Li and his party will also fall into the sea of demons. When the passage is fully opened, this land will become a paradise for demons, and staying here is almost death. Besides, even if you keep it, what can you do? For Li, it makes no sense to stick to the brownstone fortress.

Cooperate with the spirit clan to stop the arrival of demons? It seems that this is indeed a wonderful choice, but can the spiritual clan be so noble and beautiful? Is the attack on human beings really the same as what Silove said, it is all the writings of a fallen spiritual clan, and has nothing to do with the Aletok ethnic group? This is nonsense. Small-scale wars with Aletok on some planets on the border have already begun. Aletok and human beings themselves are not friends, and Li will not be so naive to believe the enemy on the battlefield.

Withdraw and then go back to clean up the mess? It seems that there is no better choice than this. Even if Li doesn't want the 101st Regiment to die like this, as a soldier, he always dies on the battlefield.

If they sacrifice for honor, then they will die in their right place.

But just before Li made a choice, another voice suddenly sounded.

"No, in fact, everyone is the same. We actually have no choice." After sighing, the voice continued, "We can't retreat. There are treasures on this planet that you can't imagine. We must protect the safety here. And I know the purpose of the demons, and I also know what they want! Warriors of the empire, the mechanical god needs you.

Lee and Elizabeth looked at each other helplessly, and then looked at the speaker. Who would have thought that Gustav, who had been silent, suddenly opened his mouth to speak now, and it was such important news.

"Gustaf, what are you hiding? If there is important news, why don't you say it at the beginning?

***

At the beginning of this trip, Gustav, the manufacturing director of Zhiyuan Planet 3, asked Li to reinforce the planet Aion, repel the invading spirit clan and restore the safety of the scientific station on the grounds that STC was found on the planet Aion.

After that, Gustav joined Lee's team and took the Kitty Hawk with Elizabeth to enter the Brownstone Fortress. It's just that Gustav remained silent all the way. He just looked quietly and listened, and never spoke under the circumstances that were not necessary.

"It's not that I want to hide it on purpose," Gustav was still calm in the face of the judge's questioning. He explained, "It's just that the existence of those things is confidential, and the fewer people know, the better. Besides, even we haven't figured out the specific situation, and how to tell you.

"Then please make it clear now."

"I said first that there was a scientific station here, but in fact, it is not even a scientific station. It is just an observation station for observing the ecological environment of the planet." Gustav was silent for a moment, as if recalling, "That was half a year ago. The observatory here accidentally found the ruins of an underground ancient city. This kind of thing often happens. Naturally, there is a set of procedures. This discovery was soon reported by the manufacturing director on the planet recently, so I I learned about this. In the first place, I came to Aiion. After evaluation, I confirmed the greatness of this discovery. Praise the machine god, which is not only a colony, but also a hidden storage point. Through the interpretation of ancient Chinese, it is certain that someone hides extremely valuable items in the core of the underground ancient city. Because this ancient city is so precious, the excavation process is naturally careful. Only at the beginning of the excavation, we found the wreckage of an STC. Although the STC and its template have been completely destroyed, this discovery still greatly boosted the morale of the excavation team. And in the subsequent excavation, we soon found a good template.

Unexpectedly, I really found a good template, which is likely to be another leap for human technology. The people in the room listened with their breath. Even the deputy commander Moirborough, who had been huddled in the chair, straightened up and pricked up his ears to know what was found.

Gustav knows what these people want to hear, and this expectation is the same as when he first picked up the intact manufacturing template with trembling hands. He pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose to hide his embarrassment and said, "This is a complete template. You only need to bring it back to the manufacturing world to produce something in the template. Unfortunately, this is just a small manufacturing template, and what is stored in the template is not military equipment.

"What on earth can this template produce?"

Gustav spit out a word: "Ceca-Cola."

Li: "..."

Elizabeth muttered, "What is this? I've never heard of it."

"The name sounds good, and it's quite easy to read." Deputy head of the delegation, Morborough, also expressed his opinion.

"But it's useless. May the mechanical god forgive me," Gustav explained seriously. "After prediction, this manufacturing template can only produce a black bubble drink. I don't understand the special use of this drink. Theoretically, it can't It can be used instead of oil, has no lubrication effect, and cannot be used as fuel. Is it just for drinking? If it is used for drinking, how should it be explained if it contains a lot of carbonic acid? I have been thinking for a long time, but I still can't understand it. The will of the machine god is unpredictable, and it is really difficult for us mortals to figure it out.

Li: "..."

"Black, and bubbles?" Elizabeth turned her head in disgust, "It's disgusting."

"Now it seems that although it is not a great thing, the reality is like this. I have led the team to excavate more than 300 times. Most of the time, we have nothing but sand and soil. When we are lucky, we will take out a few corpses and some funerary objects, which are also antiques. Some boring nobles are willing to spend a lot of money on these things. Only a few times, we found the STC we longed for, but most of the time it was damaged. This time, it is not easy to find a complete STC template. I'm not complaining, I'm just narrating. The machine god not only gives me technology, but also gives me a test. And this time, it is the blessing of the mechanical god.

"Even if it can only be used to produce a black bubbling drink?" Elizabeth has a big idea about Coca-Cola, "Well, that kind of thing is actually a drink? Can it be used for drinking? What were those people thinking in ancient times? It's disgusting to think about it.

"This kind of excavation is like this, just like a gambling game played by the consuls of some worlds, lottery tickets? Yes, that's it. Just like winning the lottery, it can discover a good, suitable and practical STC template. It's like winning the first prize. The probability is extremely low. Gustav said, "But now we are the lucky ones, the mechanical god, we won the first prize."

"Did you win the first prize because you dug out a template for making drinks?"

"Judge, let go of Coca-Cola. Of course, winning the jackpot is not because of the template. This template is only what we discovered in the living area outside the ancient city, but it has explained a lot of problems. A good STC template represents a good storage environment here. In a good environment, we may find more usable STC models. Board, and there is a broader area in the ancient city that we have not been excavated yet. Think about it, until now, my excavation team has only completed the exploration of the first floor of the ancient city, and the excavation of the second floor has just begun. These are just the outermost living areas of the city. What can we find if we continue to go deep into other areas? Think about it, there are so many unknown areas waiting for us to explore, including the data archival area and the military industrial area. Imagine what we can dig out of it. The empire's technology is likely to make a leap.

"It's just possible."

"But it's very possible! This is not a guess, but a complete STC template as evidence," Gustav took out a drawing and continued after unfolding it on the table. "Besides, even if it is only one percent possible, we should try our best. For the mechanical god, for the empire, sacrifice is inevitable, but this sacrifice is valuable!"